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THE BANNER-MESSENGER.
.The Official Organ of Haralson Gonnty.
WClttNASi OEOUOIA, APHTi. 16. tsot.
A. E. NIX, Editor and Manager.
SUBSCttlPTlOS KATKS.
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dhe women of Kansas vote the Demo
•cratic ticket.’ Sensible women. Would
'that there were more of them.
Harrison has appointed a negro for
at Vicksburg. If the people
like the effect they must remove
cause.
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.^Governor Ilill is no “free trade” man,
hut,a X solid tariff reform Democrat; just
the >rt of a man we need for President
tile United States. *
of so
Mrs. Ora McKee, who was on trial in
Rome last week foi poisoning Mrs. Wim
pec, Avns acquitted. The attorneys em¬
ployed in this case won fame.
The tariff has been taken off of sugar
j*nia<j it is inuch cheaper. Why not take
- the tariff off of other things just as nec¬
essary and useful as sugar?
Vv'c must have more money as well ns
tariff reform. What profit is it to a man to
bo offered a dollar’s worth of goods at
tifty cents when ho has only got twenty
five fonts."' Let us have more money as
well as cheaper goods.
The Alliance of Heard county recon¬
sidered its actions in electing R. H. Jack
son to the State Alliance Convention be¬
cause he would not pledge himself to sup¬
port Livingston for re-election as presi¬
dent of the State Alliance. They elected
Win. Hogan to fill his place. Livingston
will bo elected.
Col. Rrock in his tariff message this
week failed to state that sugar is from 2
to4 cents chea nos si nce the tariff
ken off—that is previous to April 4tli, 1891,
there has been a tariff on sugar, since
that date, under low tariff sugar is much
cheaper. Why not take the tariff off of
some other things?
“Protect our American industries,” is
the cry of the high tariff party. We sa v
let every iudusfxy stand upon its own bot
tom. We don’t need to protect that
-which is better able to protect itself than
we are. Why make every poor fainter in
the whole land pay a tax to keep up the
rich manufacturer? It’s unjust, it’s rob¬
bery!
John Morris, of Dooly county, was
tried this week and sentenced to twenty
years in the penitentiary for killing his
father who was seventy-six years of age.
They quarreled over fifty cents worth of
calico which resulted in the killing. The
man (?) who would take his old father’s
life ought to be hung till he is dead,
dead, dead.
While Col. Brock is trying to show up
that high tariff makes cheap goods, Mr.
Harrison is saying that wo don’t want
cheap goods—that cheap goods make
cheap iMfen, etc. Well, there are lots of
ways to whip the devil around the stump,
but the people don’t intend to be gulled
any longer. They want and are going to
have tariff reform.
Give us a direct tax. Why tax us in ad
,vance to make goods cheap when they
get here? We had rather pay our mer¬
chants a little more when we go to buy
than to pay the manufacturers such an
enormous tariff. Take the tariff off and
let the manufacturers raise the price of
their goods if they want to. But you
say our manufacturers would have to
shut down—that Europe would under¬
sell them. Then why do you say that
protection gives us cheap goods? It’s all
a farce in our judgement.
YIASHIKGTOH LETTER.
Washington, Apr. 10,1801.
Senator Potter is in demand at public
meetings here, and bo doeson’t forget to
ini press the principles of the Farmers’
Alliance upon bis hearers at every oppor
tunity. lie made a speech at a largely
attended meeting of the Federation of
labor this week, that lias attracted wide
attention. Ho took up the immigration
question—a very live one just now—from
the passage of the notorious contract-la
j aw j u JS(j ^ ((J - j u , ; “Many
time have I wondered how the hand of
honest old Abo Lincoln must have »h«r
ken when he signed it.” . This law he ar
gued was the natural sequel of the grant¬
ing of 94,000,000 acres of public lands to
railroads in 1862 and J, and was passed
to enable their agents to bring over under
contract cheap European laborers to do
their work Asa direct result of agita¬
tion in 1882 the first anti-alien Contract
law was passed, another in 1885, and still
another at the last session of Congress,
lie then gave his hearers some pointers
about pushing the educational work in
and out of season, and supporting men
from their own ranks.
Speaking of an interview in which Sen¬
ator Edmunds characterized the Farm¬
ers’ Alliance movement as a fever, Mr
Pcffcr said: “Some people—fossiles, I
was going to say—are inclined to belit¬
tle those things. I notice that Dr. Goo.
F. Edmunds said that was nothing but a
fever, and that the public wore afflicted
periodically in this way. Hut the people
will not listen to these ancient physi¬
cians, and will not heed antediluvian
remedies.” Concluding he said: “I
want to identify myself with you. I
want yon, the laboring men and women
of the country, to understand that you
have at least one friend in the Senate of
the .United States, one who will not be
ashamed or afraid to present whatever
you wish to that diguitied body.”
Another distinguished Alliance man,
Col. L. L. Polk, president of the National
Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union,
made his first bow before a Washington
audiance last nigutT at a public meeting
held at by Local branch No. 4, National
Citizens Alliance. lie made a good im¬
pression, and it is said some converts by
his able presentation of the principles of
his organization.
The centennial of the American Patent
system is being celebrated hero this
week, and the town is f ull of the men
who have made fortunes out of their own
or somebody else’s inventions, to say
nothing of the newspaper inventors
whom we have with us always. The Pa¬
tent office is beautifully decorated inside
in honor of the occasion, and in the lect
m'c hall of the National Museum is an
exhibition of the many interesting things,
including the identical printing press
at which Benjamin Franklin worked in
London. This morning the visiting in¬
ventors were taken to Ml. Vernon and
allowed to pay tlieir devotion to the
tomb of Washington, and their spare
cash for souvenirs sold on the grounds,
and this afternoon the celebration is to
close with a military review. It has
been a very pleasant affair to those on
the inside, so to speak, but as tickets
wore required for everything the people
were really not “in it.”
Baron Fava, the Italian Minister, has
gone home, and the public lost interest
in the cause of his going as soon as it was
certain that a peaceful settlement would
eventually be reached. Mr. Blaine’s ans¬
wer to the last dispatch from the Italian
government was read to the cabinet, ap¬
proved and sent off by mail this week.
It will not be made public at this time.
Ex-Iiepresentative Crounse, of Nebras¬
ka, lias been appointed Assistant Secreta¬
ry of the Treasury at the request of Sec¬
retary Foster, with whom he served in
the House of Representatives some years
ago.
Gen. Benj. P. Butler was made happy
this, week by the receipt of $270,000 of
government money in payment for the
white elephant he has had on his hands
ever since he built the big stone house
just opposite the Capitol building, which
the last Congress very kindly passed a
bill to purchase for its own use at the
price named.
Uncle Jerry Rusk having succeeded in
getting Germany to agree to lift its em¬
bargo on American meats, has now turn¬
ed all of his navy guns upon France, and
ho hopes to be equally successful with
that country.
It is believed here that Canadian reci¬
procity is couiepletely done for as far as
the present administration is concerned,
and that no notice will ever be sent to
the Canadian government that Mr. Har¬
rison is ready to receive them and hear
their propositions. Mr. Harrison is erit
idzed for having- bo brusquely sent the
eminent Canadians back home,
they came hero to keep an engagement
made with Mr. Illaine. “It would only
have been courtesy to have allowed them
to say what they came to say,” remark¬
ed a republican Senator last night, and
lie is by no means alone in thinking
so.
Senator Edmunds' resignation created
more regret than surprise among his par
associates.
OMHiiMrun
Who pays the tariff? Why every tax
payer, and gets it back in high priced
goods. Don’t the reduction on sugar go
to prove this?
The lipuor sellers have faired but mid
dling this court.—Carroll Co. Times.
They ought not to have so much meat
as a middling at any court.
The Republicans are making a good
deal of furs over the reduction of sugar.
It would haye been better for their party
it had given them an opportunity to
about a reduction in the price of
other necessaries of life.—Con¬
Den you sed sumpen.
Merit Wins.
Wo desire to say to out citizens, that
for years we have been selling Dr. King’s
New Discovery for Consumption, Dr.
King’s Now Life Fills, Bueklen’s Arnica
Salve and Electric Bitters, and have uev
er handled remedies that sell as well, or
that have given such universal satirise
tion. We do not hesitate to guarantee
them every time, and we stand ready to
refund the purchase price, if satisfactory
Mtoults du not follow tlieir -uiio. Tlioeii
remedies have won their great popularity
purely on their merits. For sale by N eill
& Alnion, Druggist.
“Two fools have met.” The legisla¬
ture of Nebraska passed a bill regulating
freight rates, which, after being petition¬
ed by railway employees, the Governor
vetoed it. In his veto Governor Boyd
said that under such a bill the rates could
bo advanced more than twenty per cent,
In the first place the legislature, which
is called an Alliance legislature, passed a
bill that would add to their burden, and
the railroad employees petioned against
a bill that would have added twenty per
cent, to their interest, according to Gov¬
ernor Boyd. Hut there is no end to
strange things.
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Many years practice has given C. A.
Snow & Co., Solicitors of Patents at
Washington, D. C., unsurpassed succes
inobtaing pateuts for all classes of inven
tion. They make a specialty of rejected
cases, and have secured allowance of
many patents that had been previously
rejected. Tlieir advertisement in
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who have to do with patents.
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